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Stephen Covey
Inducted 2000
Stephen R.
Covey is founder and chairman of the Covey Leadership Center, a
200-plus member international firm whose mission is to empower
people and organizations to significantly increase their performance
capability in order to achieve worthwhile purposes through
understanding and living principle-centered leadership. He is also
founder of The Institute for Principle Centered Leadership, a
non-profit research group dedicated to transforming education and
improving the quality of community life.
Dr. Covey has
taught leadership principles and management skills for more than 25
years to leaders in business, government, and education. His
consulting portfolio contains more than 150 of the Fortune 500
companies, as well as thousands of mid-sized and smaller
organizations.
Recent awards
include the first Thomas More College Medallion for continued
service to humanity (1990), the Utah Symphony 50th Anniversary Award
for outstanding national and international contributions (1990), and
the McFeely Award from the International Management Council for
significant contributions to management and education (1991).
His work in
principle-centered leadership has been adopted by thousands of
organizations as a foundational inside-out approach to improving
quality, leadership, innovation, trust, teamwork, customer-focused
service, organizational alignment, and many other strategic
corporate initiatives. This approach to building and sustaining high
trust cultures ultimately focuses on the relationship between all
four levels of organizations—personal, interpersonal, managerial,
and organizational.
Covey's work
as an author, keynote speaker, teacher, consultant, television and
radio guest, and executive mentor has created international interest
in applying principle-centered leadership to many personal,
organizational, and societal issues.
Dr. Covey is
the author of several books and numerous articles on leadership,
personal and organizational effectiveness, and family and
interpersonal relationships. His book, The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People, was number one on the New York Times
Bestseller List with more than 1.5 million copies sold. The book is
being published in over 20 countries and in a dozen languages,
including Japanese, German, French, Chinese and Spanish. His latest
book is Principle-Centered Leadership. His leadership
advisory magazine, Executive Excellence, is in its eighth
year of publication.
Stephen Covey
received an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young
University, where he was Professor of Organizational Behavior and
Business Management. He has served as an officer and board member of
several organizations.
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